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Myths and Legends of the Internet http://www.myths.org

This site is designed to help people discover myths and legends of the Internet. Hopefully new members of the Internet community will consult such places before forwarding myths and urban legends on to their unsuspecting friends.

The World Wide Web: Origins and Beyond http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lzeltser/WWW

This site describes some of the historical aspects of the World Wide Web development, as well as the alternative methods of universal information sharing through hypertext, such as the Xanadu project.

WWW: History http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

Everything you wanted to know about how the Internet came about. All in just one page!

Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee

Yes, it is through this page that you can get across to Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Internet. A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This site has a lot of info about how Lee went about creating the Internet, plus some very interesting articles like 'The Web: Past, Present and Future' and 'Realizing the full potential of the Web'.

InternetValley http://www.internetvalley.com/intval.html

A brilliant web site, which unfolds the story of the making of the Internet like a best-seller. There are profiles of all those great visionaries who conceived and midwifed the Internet.

The history of browsers http://php.engr.iupui.edu/~snisonge/main.html

Gives an excellent overview of browsers. This web site is divided into three sections: history, current state and future, taking you through the world of browsers, right from the pains of conceptualising and executing the first browser to powerful 'super-browsers' of the next millennium.

The Elsop Webmaster Resource Center http://www.elsop.com/wrc/hweb.htm

Hosted by the Internet Society, this site takes you step by step through the history of the Internet. Don't miss the in-depth articles on browsers and how the Net is going to shape the future.

Netizens Netbook http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook

Want to find out more about the history and impact of various aspects of the Net like ARPANET, Usenet and more? This site should help

FAQs about FAQs http://www.faqs.org/faqs/faqs/about-faqs

Like the title suggests, this site hosts only FAQs. It is an excellent place to get introduced to the Web (or for anything related to the Internet, for that matter). Use the search facility to

W3 History http://www.w3.org/History.html

If you've always wondered how did that exciting world called the World Wide Web come to your fingertips, this site is what you are looking for. It's all there -- about Tim Berners-Lee (yes, the Web is his creation), CERN (the cradle of the web), SINTRAN, ARPANET, the first browser…

Encryption Privacy and Security Resource Page http://www.crypto.com

This is a great resource site that helps shed some light on the issues surrounding the use and policy making of encryption and privacy that effects us all.

FAQfiles http://www.faqfiles.com/search.html

Jazzy and immensely helpful, this site is the mother of all FAQ sites. Don't get lost in the scores of links on the homepage; head straight for the search facility and key in what you want to know about the World Wide Web.

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